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Gorgeous words from my friend @filipouris.bsky.social on finding meaning, catharsis, and queer joy in Heated Rivalry! 💗

It's all part of the ✨creative process✨!

Why the Canada Pension Plan investment board is lending nearly half a billion dollars to Elon Musk’s deepfake-producing company CPP Investments says loan with xAI supports a physical facility and is “not an endorsement of, or operational role in, any particular product feature.”

“I think a lot of working people in Canada who are contributors to the CPP would be concerned to learn that the entity that invests their pension … is investing in this company that has been responsible for such an egregious treatment of women and minors.” www.thestar.com/business/why...

“Skinner said the aim of the site was to create an atmosphere like that of Chicago in the 1920s, when the public naming of Ku Klux Klan members led many of them to be publicly shunned.”

Fascinating new data findings from @wencyleung.bsky.social in today's final story of the Cost of Care issue, on the failures of Health811, Ontario's health hotline: thelocal.to/health811-te...

"Canada has largely been shielded from this specific flavour of anti-trans rhetoric simply because mass shootings on this level rarely happen here. But this incident shows that the toxic sludge of anti-trans discourse has a firm hold in our political and online sphere here too." #cdnpoli

EXCLUSIVE: Carney Government Prevented Parkdale SCS from Staying Open After being defunded by Doug Ford’s government, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre scrambled to find an alternative model that would allow its safe consumption site (SCS) to continue…

Vital reporting from @emmapaling.bsky.social: Feds required a Parkdale safe consumption site to create a “community safety plan” approved by police that took responsibility for crime across the entire neighbourhood (!?) The ask led the site to close a year early: www.thegrindmag.ca/exclusive-ca...

When Your Dermatologist Becomes a Salesperson | The Local Getting a mole checked can takes months, but Botox appointments are readily available. Why dermatologists say their practice is the canary in the coal mine for privatized care.

The always excellent @rebeccaga0.bsky.social tackles the blurring line between medical and commercial in the world of dermatology. What happens when your health care practition turns a medically-necessary appointment turns into a sales pitch for cosmetic procedures? thelocal.to/dermatology-...

Important read.
I fear that the rhetoric around this is going to get very ugly very quickly because of the age we're living in.

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

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Maybe I'm biased, but this one-of-a-kind visual guide brought to life by @wencyleung.bsky.social and Michael DeForge might be the most entertaining thing you read this weekend. Don't miss it:

In today's latest from the Cost of Care issue, Kunal breaks down how profit-seeking by corporate pharmacies is causing burnout and labour shortages among pharmacists—at a time when the province is growing increasingly reliant on them to fill in gaps in primary care. bsky.app/profile/thel...

An Engineer Was Fired After Speaking Out for Palestine. Now He’s Suing His Former Employer Palestinian-Canadian Amjad Ramadan is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages after he was abruptly terminated by NTN Canada, the manufacturing company he’d worked at for 15 years. He was fired soon after…

New story in The Grind.

Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine.

"There is a campaign to silence us," he told me.

@thegrindto.bsky.social

HonestReporting Canada’s targeted harassment machine - J-Source A self-professed media watchdog has been weaponizing antisemitism and trying to poison journalistic standards on covering Palestine. Media workers on the perils of the relentless intimidation and disi...

"Failure to mount a serious response to this harassment, and the deference some newsrooms show to the pressure, represents a serious threat to the public perception and practice of journalism at a critical moment." A comprehensive look at the tyranny of Honest Reporting: j-source.ca/honestreport...

This year's going to be a fun one in the Local newsroom, with lots of young talent joining us throughout the year - including the excellent Gabby McMann!

Inside the Booming Industry Selling Lifestyle Drugs Online | The Local From erectile dysfunction medicine to hair loss treatment to weight loss drugs—a thriving online market has emerged to seamlessly deliver drugs straight to your door. But what happens when prescriptio...

Here's the latest great story from @royinori.bsky.social , explaining the industry behind all those ED and weight-loss drug ads you see on the TTC #ozempic #wegovy thelocal.to/online-pharm...

Investors are betting big on virtual pharmacies selling lifestyle drugs, where a prescription can be just a few DMs away. This sector raises tricky questions about physician ethics, the role of profit in healthcare, and what happens when patients come looking for specific prescriptions. New from me:

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Saving Rhea Seegobin | The Local For the growing number of Canadians who will get cancer in their lifetimes, the financial stress can be profound. But despite her terminal diagnosis, with the support of her community, Rhea is determi...

"As the cost of living in Toronto continues to rise, and newer, more expensive cancer treatments become available, how will this city cope with the thousands of new cancer cases that are diagnosed each year?" A study in hope and resilience from @wencyleung.bsky.social thelocal.to/cost-of-canc...

And How Will You Be Paying for Your Baby Today? | The Local When I first came to the pediatrics unit as an idealistic medical student, I ran into an uncomfortable reality about our universal health-care system.

Almost every day as a 3rd year med student, Gautham Krishnaraj would assess the newborn baby of an uninsured, non-resident mother. What he hadn't expected, he writes, is that he'd also have to ask these parents how they wanted to pay for the services they were receiving: thelocal.to/uninsured-bi...

How Privatized Cataract Surgery Helped Ontario’s Wealthiest—and Left Others Behind | The Local Why a routine surgery offers a window into the possible future of care in this province.

Wait times + backlogs for cataract surgery pushed the pulicly-funded procedure into private for-profit clinics. But when a patient becomes a customer, how can you know if you really need what you're being offered or if it’s just an upsell? From @alisonmotluk.bsky.social: thelocal.to/cataract-sur...

The Cost of Care | The Local Stories about where money and medicine collide in 2026. Throughout January and February, we’ll publish pieces from the corners of Ontario’s health care system where entrepreneurs and corporate Canada ...

@thelocal.to's Cost of Care issue, publishing through last month and this one, offers deep-dives on the intersection of profit and health care. The shared theme of many of these stories is the modern question of a patient as a customer, or a consumer. The issue so far: thelocal.to/winter-2026/

Inside the Booming Industry Selling Lifestyle Drugs Online | The Local From erectile dysfunction medicine to hair loss treatment to weight loss drugs—a thriving online market has emerged to seamlessly deliver drugs straight to your door. But what happens when prescriptio...

I had a lot of questions about the millions of online pharmacy ads that have popped up in recent years, hawking hair loss treatment and ED medication and weight loss drugs. @royinori.bsky.social answered them! thelocal.to/online-pharm...

It's becoming harder to afford the material costs of a cancer diagnosis, and millions countrywide will someday face this reality. Amidst this strife, the brilliant @wencyleung.bsky.social found a story of uncommon hope: of what happens when a community comes together to buoy a person's final years.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Good dispatch of life on the ground during an ICE occupation:

Ontario’s Daycares Are Increasingly Staffed by Underqualified Hires | The Local New data shows Ministry of Education approvals for non-ECEs working in ECE-designated roles jumped more than 1,000 percent over the last five years.

The rise in under-qualified hires at childcare centres has shot up more than 1000% in 5 years. Rather than addressing the ECE shortage by improving wages and working conditions, the Ontario government is choosing to "paper over the crisis," advocates say. My latest:
thelocal.to/ontarios-day...

Great, startling data story out in The Local today about the growing number of underqualified personnel working in child care roles across the province. No standardized qualifications = no universally understood practices of care & no accountability when existing standards aren't met.

Why did a group of teenage girls kill a homeless man at random? | Crime Story | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen If you were in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto on December 17, 2022, you might have come across a very normal scene: a group of teenage girls hanging out. They were rowdy and obnoxious, like m...

I'm on CBC's Crime Story this week to talk about my @thewalrus.ca story about the swarm killing of Toronto man Kenneth Lee by eight teenage girls. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Two Months After Cease-Fire, Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza More than 2,500 buildings have been destroyed since the start of the cease-fire, according to a New York Times analysis. Israel says it is demilitarizing Gaza.

It’s been over three months since a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, but Israel’s destruction of the strip still continues.

Since the beginning of the ceasefire, Israel has demolished more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza, per a report from @nytimes.com.